{"id":112119,"date":"2015-04-28T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=112119"},"modified":"2015-04-28T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:13:39","slug":"kpone-fisher-folks-demonstrate-against-chief-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=112119","title":{"rendered":"Kpone fisherfolks demonstrate against chief Fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scores of fisherfolks at Kpong on Tuesday demonstrated against the chief fisherman of the area, Nii Tetteh Ashong calling for his removal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;FZiU0gikDU4yycviwFXQqIvrvIzkU0p2&#8243;]They accuse him of being \u201cselfish\u201d and not championing the cause of the fishermen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A petition was presented to the district assembly after the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spokesperson of the fishermen John Tetteh explained to Citi News&#8217; Elvis Washington that\u00a0instead of fighting for the cause of the fishermen Nii Ashong \u201cis always [seen] at the traditional council selling lands and he doesn&#8217;t help us at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe is selling the premix fuel and he doesn\u2019t use the profits to develop the beach. He is using it for his own gains,\u201d said John Tetteh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the fishermen also performed some traditional rites aimed at removing Mr Nii Tetteh Ashong from the position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of fisherfolks at Kpong on Tuesday demonstrated against the chief fisherman of the area, Nii Tetteh Ashong calling for his removal. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;FZiU0gikDU4yycviwFXQqIvrvIzkU0p2&#8243;]They accuse him of being \u201cselfish\u201d and not championing the cause of the fishermen. A petition was presented to the district assembly after the demonstration. The spokesperson of the fishermen John Tetteh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":70397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-112119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}